UK rights group, Freedom From Torture called on newly elected Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena to cooperate with the UN investigation into mass atrocities on the island and ensure justice is served for human rights violations.
"Sri Lanka's new president, Mr Sirisena, needs to face up to the human rights violations that have been perpetrated during and since the end of the civil war, rather than hoping they will go away. Hundreds of thousands of people were affected by this brutal civil war and healing can only truly begin when justice is done," Susan Munroe, Chief Executive of Freedom from Torture, said in a blog post entitled “Election fever will fade, but the need for justice will not."
"Our own evidence clearly demonstrates that torture is still routinely practised in Sri Lanka. The overwhelming majority of these torture victims are ethnic Tamils, and the key factor that led to their detention and torture appears to be a real, or perceived, connection to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)," she added.
Freedom For Torture, which said it receives more referrals of torture cases from Sri Lanka than from any other country, went on to call for Sirisena “to cooperate with the UN's investigation into human rights violations during the closing stages of the civil war”.
"Sri Lanka's new president, Mr Sirisena, needs to face up to the human rights violations that have been perpetrated during and since the end of the civil war, rather than hoping they will go away. Hundreds of thousands of people were affected by this brutal civil war and healing can only truly begin when justice is done," Susan Munroe, Chief Executive of Freedom from Torture, said in a blog post entitled “Election fever will fade, but the need for justice will not."
"Our own evidence clearly demonstrates that torture is still routinely practised in Sri Lanka. The overwhelming majority of these torture victims are ethnic Tamils, and the key factor that led to their detention and torture appears to be a real, or perceived, connection to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)," she added.
Freedom For Torture, which said it receives more referrals of torture cases from Sri Lanka than from any other country, went on to call for Sirisena “to cooperate with the UN's investigation into human rights violations during the closing stages of the civil war”.